| Year
| Location
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| 2012
| London (gbr)
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| 2008
| Beijing (chn)
| Hong Un-Jong (nko)
| Oksana Chusovitina (ger)
| Cheng Fei (chn)
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| 2004
| Athínai (gre)
| Monica Rosu (rom)
| Annia Hatch (usa)
| Anna Pavlova (rus)
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| 2000
| Sydney (aus)
| Yelena Zamolodzhikova (rus)
| Andreea Raducan (rom)
| Yekaterina Lobaznyuk (rus)
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| 1996
| Atlanta (usa)
| Simona Amanar (rom)
| Mo Huilan (chn)
| Gina Gogean (rom)
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| 1992
| Barcelona (spa)
| Lavinia Milosovici (rom)
| --
| Tetyana Lysenko (cis)
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| Henrietta Ónodi (hun)
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| 1988
| Seoul (sko)
| Svetlana Boginskaya (sov)
| Gabriela Potorac (rom)
| Daniela Silivas (rom)
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| 1984
| Los Angeles (usa)
| Ecaterina Szabo (rom)
| Mary Lou Retton (usa)
| Lavinia Agache (rom)
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| 1980
| Moskva (rus)
| Natalya Shaposhnikova (sov)
| Steffi Kräker (ege)
| Melita Rühn (rom)
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| 1976
| Montréal (can)
| Nelli Kim (sov)
| Carola Dombeck (ege)
| --
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| Lyudmila Turisheva (sov)
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| 1972
| München (wge)
| Karin Janz (ege)
| Erika Zuchold (ege)
| Lyudmila Turisheva (sov)
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| 1968
| Mexico City (mex)
| Vera Cáslavská (czs)
| Erika Zuchold (ege)
| Zinaida Voronina (sov)
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| 1964
| Tokyo (jpn)
| Vera Cáslavská (czs)
| Larisa Latynina (sov)
| --
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| Birgit Radochla (ger)
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| 1960
| Roma (ita)
| Margaryta Nikolayeva (sov)
| Sofiya Muratova (sov)
| Larisa Latynina (sov)
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| 1956
| Melbourne (aus)
| Larisa Latynina (sov)
| Tamara Manina (sov)
| Ann-Sofi Colling-Pettersson (swe)
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| Olga Tass (hun)
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| 1952
| Helsinki (fin)
| Yekaterina Kalinchuk (sov)
| Mariya Gorokhovskaya (sov)
| Galina Minaycheva (sov)
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